Bug 385227 - Duplicate packages for kdev-python.
Summary: Duplicate packages for kdev-python.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: Packages User Edition (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Reported: 2017-09-30 10:06 UTC by Francis Herne
Modified: 2018-11-05 22:01 UTC (History)
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Description Francis Herne 2017-09-30 10:06:29 UTC 
apt in Neon can see two separate packages of kdev-python:

The package `kdev-python` v1.7.3 from Ubuntu Xenial.
The package `kdevelop-python` v5.1.2 from the Neon repositories.

In Ubuntu Xenial, there was only a `kdev-python` package. In more recent Ubuntu releases, `kdev-python` is a transitional package for `kdevelop-python`, but that isn't the case here.

The result is that anyone trying to install `kdev-python` receives the non-transitional upstream Ubuntu package, and gets broken dependencies because Neon has a newer and incompatible kdevplatform version.

This has been a recurring issue reported in #kdevelop and elsewhere; we didn't realise the exact cause until acheronuk pointed out on IRC that Neon uses the newer name now.
Comment 1 Jonathan Riddell 2018-11-05 22:01:59 UTC 
sorted with the 18.04 LTS rebase